A basic truth that wellness committees can embrace: People evaluate their well-being in financial terms before they do so in health terms. If they feel pain in the pocketbook, then the seemingly priceless details in your conventional wellness communication might be worthless to them. Money issues are dominating your employees’ brainwaves, so including simple financial…
Dieting is a popular ingredient in wellness communication, but true wellness goes by the wayside when food intake becomes an all-consuming focus. A smarter approach is to deliver relevant, compelling messages about intuitive eating. Most wellness committees deliver frequent messages about food—tips sent with good intentions that prescribe what to eat, when to eat, and…
What do your employees want to know or accomplish? Their answers to a simple interest survey can be the catalyst for effective wellness communication. Wellness communication is often an afterthought, viewed by organizations as a necessary byproduct of their wellness plans. Most companies try to figure out ways to elicit employee participation in only after…
It’s time for a shakeup to the current way employers are offering wellness programs. We believe a wellness Renaissance is coming. Here’s why, and what you can expect: The Dark Clouds Commoditization. Providers use similar standards and procedures that depend upon health risk assessments and the data derived from them. The result is the wellness…
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Ideas and inspiration for your wellness program don’t have to be born in your office or conference room. Let them well up from creative, energizing people in your community. Most of us are unaware of the resources that remain untapped within five miles from where we work and live. Even if you’re in a small…
Quick Summary: What’s the best way for employees to get their daily dose of trusted health information? Even with the growing number of health-information seekers on the Web, a new study ranks print media among the best places for health information that helps readers follow a healthy lifestyle.
Quick Summary: The workplace represents an ideal setting for the delivery of health and wellness programs, and building and sustaining a corporate culture of health is a critical component in implementing an effective program, according to The Vitality Group, a provider of incentive-based wellness solutions.
Quick Summary: Wellness at the workplace is more than a task—it calls for a company culture shift. Where to start? “Senior level buy-in is a critical first step,” says Ginny Hridel, a wellness program coordinator for the Council of Smaller Enterprises in Ohio. Measuring the potential value of a program will inspire the change, she adds. “Wellness has an impact on all other costs: health insurance, workers’ compensation, absenteeism, just to name a few.”
